[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Failover without SER

[Aaron Daniel]

Well, that's kinda frustrating :) Time to start digging.

Aaron

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Douglas Garstang wrote:

> Preeeetty darn sure it isn't an option with the Polycoms.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Aaron Daniel [mailto:amdtech at shsu.edu]
>> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 1:23 PM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Failover without SER
>>
>>
>> On our phones, when you configure a backup proxy, the phone registers
>> simultaneously with both servers.  I can do a sip show peers
>> on either
>> server and see all the phones on the system.  Not sure if it
>> works for the
>> polycoms, which I'm just starting testing on, but works like
>> a charm with
>> the Cisco's.  This gives us the redundancy we need with the
>> system, and
>> hopefully the Polycoms handle it well.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Douglas Garstang wrote:
>>
>>> Don't quite follow. If the phones have a backup proxy
>> configured, wouldn't that mean they would only register with
>> that backup proxy if the primary was unavailable? In that
>> case, they'd only be registered with a single proxy, not two.
>>>
>>> We're using polycom phones... they support DNS SRV and seem
>> to work (mostly) well. Phones haven't seemed to have been the issue.
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Aaron Daniel [mailto:amdtech at shsu.edu]
>>>> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 12:33 PM
>>>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>>> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Failover without SER
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, most phones have a backup proxy setting, so we've got
>>>> all our phones
>>>> configured to register with both servers using the backup
>>>> proxy, with an
>>>> outbound proxy set up so the phones can call out from any
>>>> server that's
>>>> available.  We just got the outbound proxy stuff working, so we can
>>>> literally walk in the server room and unplug a call server
>>>> and only lose
>>>> calls that are in progress, and nobody would know the
>>>> difference.  We just
>>>> got some polycoms in, I'm kinda excited to see how well they
>>>> handle the
>>>> redundancy.  The way we have it set up, we can drop a whole
>>>> new server
>>>> into the cluster, change like 3 lines of dialplan code, and
>>>> add the server
>>>> to the proxy list and voila, another server handling more
>> call load :)
>>>>
>>>> Aaron
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Douglas Garstang wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Here's the $64,000 question... how are you handling
>>>> redundant registrations?
>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Aaron Daniel [mailto:amdtech at shsu.edu]
>>>>>> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 11:32 AM
>>>>>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>>>>> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Failover without SER
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We've actually got two servers handling all the call volume,
>>>>>> and when one
>>>>>> server goes down, the other one fields all phone calls.
>>>>>> We're using a
>>>>>> combination of dialplan magic and dns to make it work.  As
>>>>>> long as your
>>>>>> phones can handle multiple ip's for host records and
>> you've got the
>>>>>> dialplan set up right, HA is fairly easy to get working right.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aaron
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Bryan Mahin wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, I should say... Sporadically I can register to the
>>>> virtual ip.
>>>>>>> Other times I can't.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>>>>>>> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On
>>>> Behalf Of Bryan
>>>>>>> Mahin
>>>>>>> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 12:56 PM
>>>>>>> To: Asterisk-Users
>>>>>>> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Failover without SER
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello all, I first want to thank everyone for all your
>>>>>> contributions.
>>>>>>> I've building an asterisk system for a month or so now
>> and without
>>>>>>> everyone in the online asterisk community I wouldn't have
>>>>>> made it this
>>>>>>> far yet. Thanks! ...ok, mushiness out of the way.. :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am looking for a failover and ultimately a load
>>>> balancing asterisk
>>>>>>> solution. I've done a good bit of research and I haven't
>>>>>> really found
>>>>>>> any information for implementing an Asterisk only
>> failover or load
>>>>>>> balancing solution. Everyone seems to use SER along with
>>>> asterisk to
>>>>>>> accomplish this goal. SER with asterisk may be in my
>>>>>> future, but for now
>>>>>>> I need to get this system up and running.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've setup heartbeat (ultramonkey), and are able to take my
>>>>>> primary box
>>>>>>> offline and have the second machine take over, but it isn't
>>>>>> working in
>>>>>>> regards to asterisk. I can't register phones to the virtual
>>>>>> ip. I can
>>>>>>> ssh into the virtual ip but my soft phones wont register.
>>>> I get the
>>>>>>> following error. Is this normal?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anyone have any experience with this sort of setup
>>>>>> without the use
>>>>>>> of SER?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bryan Mahin
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Aaron Daniel
>>>>>> Computer Systems Technician
>>>>>> Sam Houston State University
>>>>>> amdtech at shsu.edu
>>>>>> (936) 294-4198
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